The week’s top debut is indie sleeper Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, a hip-hop duo from Seattle who had the #1 album on iTunes earlier this week with The Heist, which could do anywhere from 70-80k, according to our crack(ed?) retail pundits based on one-day sales.
Ben Haggerty, who goes by the nom de rap Macklemore, has been popular in his hometown
Bad Boy/Interscope Texas-born, Cleveland-based rapper Machine Gun Kelly’s major label debut, Lace Up, is on target for between 50-55k in first-week sales. Known as MGK and born Colson Baker, the rap prodigy gets his name from the rapid-fire delivery he developed as a teenager. He’s been signed to P. Diddy’s label since 2011 and also has a marketing partnership for HTC’s Rezound Beats by Dre phone, with his “Invincible” track playing during the TV spot for the product.
Hundred Handed Inc.’s latest Coheed and Cambria opus from the veteran prog-rockers, Afterman: The Ascension, the first of a two-album concept, of course, is headed for a very respectable 35-40k
Hopeless’ All Time Low album, Don’t Panic, the Baltimore pop-punkers’ fifth studio effort, which finds them back on an indie after releasing 2011’s Dirty Work on Interscope, is looking at the same 35-40k total.
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Epic Irish pop-rockers The Script’s third album, imaginatively named #3, is in the 25-30k after the band received a Brit Award nomination for Best International Group last year. The band’s last album, 2010’s Science & Faith, debuted at #3 on the
Album sales were down 6% vs. last week, up 4% vs. same week last year and down 4% year to date.
Track sales were up 1% vs. last week, up 13% vs. same week last year and up 6% year to date.
TEA sales were down 4% vs. last week, up 7% vs. same week last year and down 1% year to date.
MUSIC REVENUE TOPPED $17B IN 2023: RIAA
Streaming subscriptions lead the charge. (3/27a)
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THE NEW UMG
Gosh, we hope there are more press releases.
TIKTOK BANNED!
Unless the Senate manages to make this whole thing go away, that is.
THE NEW HUGE COUNTRY ACT
No, not that one.
TRUMP'S CAMPAIGN PLAYLIST
Now 100% unlicensed!
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